http://www.easterwood.org/miyako sumeba miyako - home is where you make it Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:43:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A couple of links to explore later: Welcome to Your Home Sweet Office Budget Makeover: Home Office Heroics http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=20 From the Washington Post of May 6, 2006 comes Good Kitchen Layout, Just a Few Steps Away, with some good tips on choosing (or designing) a kitchen. To summarize, the main takeaways for me were: Try to arrange it so that the stove and sink are opposite of each other, so ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=19 As part of Naoko and I's efforts to get competing plans so we can make the best decision for building the house, we visiting Atelier Labyrinth Architects in an office at Kita Akabane. The architect's actual house is just a few blocks from here, and we had long maintained the ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=18 After our second visit to Shimokawa Architect, it came out that mother-in-law is expecting to have access to the second floor to hang laundry and futons, and for her second daughter to use the washitsu when she visits. This had been mentioned before by Naoko a few months ago, and ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=17 On Saturday (May 6th) we went back to Shimokawa Architect. We had met with him the week before to go over a plan he created for the in-laws. He had made changes to the plan based on that meeting. For us, that meant looking at the washitsu (adding a tokonoma, ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=16 This is mainly here as a reminder to research aspects of building a home theater (and electronic home, in general), and to hold links for further study. Home Theater Home Theater Setup Guides from Audioholics Home Theater on a budget Custom Home Theater from About.com Home Theater Forum Home Theater Design from Repair Home mag http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=11 For some reason, the in-laws somewhere along the line decided they weren't so opposed to a custom-built home rather than ordering one off the shelves from one of the big house makers. Naturally this is a good thing as far as I'm concerned and one less thing we have to ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=13 Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. Google recently purchased SketchUp and is offering a free version to users. I have not used it but it does ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=12 There was some discussion tonight when talking to the prospective architect about the color of the outside (外観, gaikan, exterior appearance). Following up on links from when I started this blog, I came across this page from Polus: 和の色 Too bad the small pics can't be viewed larger. http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=10 It's been almost a year and a half since I started this blog, and well, precious little has happened in most of that time, to be honest. But with the new year (2006) plans for the new house have started to slowly come into some semblance of a realistic shape. The ... http://www.easterwood.org/miyako/?p=9